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Arthur Blythe Quartet: Live From Studio Rivbea, July 6, 1976
by John Sharpe
Saxophonist Arthur Blythe arrived in New York City in 1974 with a gorgeous tone and a fully formed conception. Having featured in the ensembles of pianist Horace Tapscott in his native LA, he first caught the ear in the Big Apple after his recruitment into the bands of drummer Chico Hamilton and pianist/composer Gil Evans. This ...
The Bootleg Series Volume 21: To Be Likened Later, Spring 65: The Forgotten Gil Evans Sessions
By Bob Dylan
Label: April 1st Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: CD 1: Studio Chatter; Love Is Just A Four Letter Word (partial); Love Is Just A Four Letter Word
(complete acoustic take); Studio chatter; Ballad of Hollis Brown; Gil takes notes; Ballad of Hollis Brown
(Gil’s piano version); More chatter; Farewell Angelina; Gil’s excitement; Bob responds; Mr. Tamborine
Man (acoustic takes 1 &2); Love Minus Zero/No Limit; Chatter.
CD 2: Gil Explains to Assembled Musicians; Warm-up; Fingerprint Smile (false starts, takes 1-4);
Breakdown; Stardust; Orchestra run through; Stardust; Spoken word Straight Street; Studio chatter;
Love Minus Zero/No Limit (full orchestration); Days of Us Not Forgotten. (snippet); Don’t Let the Stars
Get In Your Eyes (false start); Don’t Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes (takes 1-3); Chatter; Ballad of Hollis
Brown.
CD 3: Love Is Just A Four Letter Word (orchestral version); Love Is Just A Four Letter Word (master
take); Don’t Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes (master take); Fingerprint Smile (takes 1-4); Dylan break
down; Chatter; Days of Us Not Forgotten (version with trumpet); Gil gets down to business; Chimes of
Freedom (warm up); Chimes of Freedom (take 1).
CD 4: Chimes of Freedom (master); Chatter; Days of Us Not Forgotten (breakdown); Farewell Angelina
(run through); Farewell Angelina (master); Joshua Gone Barbados (Dylan solo); Joanna’s Bracelets
(whole session); Gil’s Interlude; Chatter.
Gil Evans Remembered: Gil Evans Remembered (Live At The Cutting Room, NYC)
by Jack Kenny
Few people have a better right to remember Gil Evans than these musicians. The serrated wail of this band enraptured, touched and torched the listeners. It is easy to see why musicians from the Monday Night Band would want to play, creating under Evans' beatific musical vision. It must have been inspiring. Most of the musicians ...
Jimi Hendrix - A Jazz Experience, Part 2
by Ludovico Granvassu
As we have been exploring how Jimi Hendrix has inspired the jazz world, this segment focuses on the connections between Hendrix and Miles Davis and musicians close to him.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Gil Evans, Laurent Cugny “Stone Free" Rhythm-a-ning (Polygram) 0:16 Host ...
Maria Schneider and the Clasijazz Big Band at the Barcelona Jazz Festival
by Artur Moral
Maria Schneider & Clasijazz Big Band Paral·lel 6256th Festival de Jazz de BarcelonaBarcelona, Spain November 6, 2024 Maria Schneider performed at the Barcelona Jazz Festival for the seventh time in its history, accompanied this time by the Clasijazz Big Band, a brave and successful musical project born in a place ...
Life Comes In: Maria Schneider Celebrates 30 Years
by Leo Sidran
As she celebrates 30 years of running a band, composing and recording work and touring, Maria Schneider is considering her trajectory, and going through something that may or not be a crisis. She says, “I'm looking at my life and just saying 'ok, what's next?'" In 1994, Schneider released her first album Evanescence and ...
Jazz on Soul, Pop, Rock, Folk, and other intangible territories - Part 2
by Artur Moral
Part 1 | Part 2 James Carter soloing on a song by Sting? A prolific French guitarist and producer, approaching his thousandth album, deconstructing one of Billy Joel's most candid love songs? A Spanish trumpeter translating the Bee Gees into the jazz language? Yes, all this will happen in this second installment of a ...
Ryan Truesdell: Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions
by Angelo Leonardi
«L'idea di Synthesis--dice Ryan Truesdell presentando il progetto--è nata dalla consapevolezza che molti compositori di jazz traggono ispirazione dalla scrittura per quartetto d'archi di eminenti compositori classici come Bartok, Brahms e Ravel, e dalla necessità di trovare un modo realistico e al tempo stesso stimolante per creare musica insieme». Il giovane orchestratore, divenuto ...
John Fedchock: Justifiably J.J.
by Pierre Giroux
The accomplished trombonist John Fedchock has released Justifiably J.J., a heartfelt tribute to one of the most innovative figures in jazz, trombonist J.J. Johnson on the occasion of his centennial. Recorded live at The Jazz Kitchen, Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 3, 2024 (Johnson's hometown), Fedchock was accompanied by three top players: pianist Steve Allee, bassist Jeremy ...
Miguel Zenon: Golden City
by Dan McClenaghan
The alto saxophone rose to jazz prominence in the 1940s, under the influence of Charlie Parker and the birth of bebop. Important players such as Art Pepper, Lee Konitz and Ornette Coleman took the horn in their own directions, crafting distinctive alto saxophone voices. Moving ahead to the new millennium, no alto saxophonist has entered the ...
